The ACLU thinks that parents have no right to know if their pregnant underage daughter is seeking an abortion.

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80% of Americans think that parents have the right to know if their minor daughters are seeking an abortion. (CBS News Poll July 13-14, 2005)
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The ACLU believes anyone, for any reason at any time should be allowed to abort a child.

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75% of Americans believe that there should at least be some restrictions on abortion. (CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll June 24-26, 2005)
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The ACLU opposes abstinence education.

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96% of American parents with children under 17 want their kids taught that abstinence is the best approach to sex.
93% of American parents with children under 17 want their kids taught that having sex leads to disease and pregnancy.
85 % of American parents with children under 17 want abstinence to be taught with at least equal emphasis as contraception receives.
79% of American parents with children under 17 want their kids taught that teen sex leads to harmful psychological and physical effects.
(http://www.heritage.org/research/welfare/bg1722.cfm)
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The ACLU has fought to have constitutionally-sound displays that include the Ten Commandments removed from public property.

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75% of Americans believe that the Ten Commandments should be displayed on public property. (CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll June 24-26, 2005)
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The ACLU is on record as supporting polygamy.

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92% of Americans think polygamy is morally repugnant. (The Gallup Poll May 5-7, 2003)

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The ACLU has filed cases across the nation to redefine marriage against the repeatedly expressed will of the people and, now the overwhelming affirmation by even Left-leaning courts that the state is justified in retaining the definition of marriage. (Note: the ACLU got smoked in an attempt to prevent Tennesseans from even having the opportunity to express their will at the polls this year.)

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21 states have recently voted to protect marriage by an average of 70%: Alaska 68%, Hawaii 69%, Nebraska 70%, California 61%, Nevada 67%, Arkansas 75%, Georgia 76%, Kentucky 75%, Louisiana 78%, Michigan 59%, Mississippi 86%, Missouri 71%, Montana 67%, North Dakota 73%, Ohio 62%, Oklahoma 76%, Oregon 57%, Utah 66%, Kansas 70%; Alabama 81%; Texas 76%

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The ACLU believes that children should be trapped in failed public schools, even inner-city children whose parents desperately want to escape the captivity of government education.

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69% of Americans believe that parents should be able to choose their child’s public school rather than being assigned based solely on residence location. (http://www.edreform.com/_upload/2005ncsw-poll.pdf).
63% of Americans believe that parents should be able to choose the best school for their child, whether public or private. (Zogby International Polling July 2002)

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The ACLU opposes personally-initiated prayer in school and moments of silence as well as individual acknowledgement of religious beliefs at public events.

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83% of Americans think prayer should be permitted during school activities including graduation ceremonies. (Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll June 25-27, 1999)

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The ACLU has filed lawsuits and threatened cities and schools all across the country to prevent Christmas from being openly celebrated in public fora.

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96% of Americans celebrate Christmas
87% of Americans believe Christmas displays should be allowed on public property.
(FOX News Opinion Dynamics Poll December 3-4, 2003)

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The ACLU has attacked Mt. Soledad memorial in San Diego since the the very beginning of Bush the Elder’s Administration because it includes a cross. This is just one of countless examples of the ACLU’s seek and destroy mission to eliminate all religious symbols from public grounds.

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76% of San Diegans voted to save the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial from the ACLU’s attack on behalf of a single atheist. That atheist, Jim McElroy was quoted as saying following the vote: “It still doesn’t mean a damn thing,” he said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “Voters should have never voted on it. It’s a waste of taxpayers’ money.”

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The reaction from ACLU-types will predictably be something like: “What is right and Constitutional is not always popular.” Easy answer: What the ACLU does is invent rights and distort the Constitution, which is why the ACLU is so UNpopular. The ACLU has used dubious interpretations of law NEVER imagined by our Founders with compliance from radical judges to push an agenda abhorrent to most Americans and indeed to the intent of the Constitution. Look no further than the ACLU’s pro bono defense of a website that advocates pedophilia and instructs its visitors in how to rape children and evade prosecution. So…the ACLU considers encouraging instruction on how to commit and get away with child rape a First Amendment right…does anyone believe that the Founders would agree? Therefore, can’t we conclude that if the ACLU is so wrong on this, that it may be wrong on many other things? Judge the evidence for yourself.

Cross-posted from Stop The ACLU

1. ACLU reasoning aside, abstinence education is completely ineffective and a huge waste of tax payer money. Personally, I could care less what “parents want.” This should be taught in home, one way or the other. I’m tired of my tax funds going to an education system that is seen as some sort of de facto parent, without the power to discipline.

   Comment by JT — September 1, 2006 @ 9:24 am

2. Studies have shown that no matter how much you preach abstinence, children are going to have sex. Wow, big surprise there. I’d imagine that the message is especially meaningless coming from teachers instead of from parents. If parents are going to give up their responsibilities apropos sex educaiton, then I’d rather the schools teach things to kids that can limit pregnancies and the transmission of STDs. If parents don’t want their kids to have sex at all, they should get off of their fat lazy asses and get involved and stop blaming the ACLU and the schools for their problems.

   Comment by BillyJoeJimBob — September 1, 2006 @ 9:41 am

3. I can see why JT & BJJB don’t want abstinence taught in the schools. If it is, and if/when the kids (children, for God’s sake) have sex, it will place an onus of responsibility on those children, something anathema to libs.

   Not only that, but what if, Heaven forbid, someone gets the idea that sex outside of marriage is wrong? My, oh my, there may even be a tinge of guilt associated with that, and no one in their right mind would want to injure the tender little psyche of a child, right?

   Hello, are you listening, JT & BJJB? Abstinence is the only guaranteed method of avoidence of STD’s (or whatever they call them these days). Personally, I’d rather see a few more bruised psyches than a longer line at the local VD clinic.

   Comment by Carlos — September 1, 2006 @ 11:21 am

4. Carlos,
   Abstinence is a guaranteed method, to be sure, but it relies on a reality that does not exist, and will not exist. Your reality where teenagers do not have sex, do not experiment with dad’s booze, etc, just doesn’t is just not going to happen in the ‘normal’ world. Guess what, teenage pregnancy etc is even MORE of a problem in supposedly religious households. The reality of the situation is that schools are NOT going to solve your parental problems for you. They are NOT going to keep your kids from having sex. However, they *might* help keep your kids from getting pregnant or getting STD’s. That said, you as a parent are going to have FAR more of an impact on what your kids do. If you’re kid’s too stupid to understand, before taking a sex ed class, that abstienence is the only sure way NOT to get pregnant or contract STD’s, you haven’t done your job or they’ve been dropped on their heads too much (again, your fault).

   Comment by BillyJoeJimBob — September 1, 2006 @ 11:58 am

5. I just re-read my previous post and, as I thought, no where in it did I say or imply that all children taught abstinence would not have sex. I do remember writing that abstinence was the only guaranteed method of avoiding STD’s.

   Matter of fact, I wrote that “…if/when the kids have sex…”, hardly a statement that says if they are taught abstinence they will follow it unequivically.

   I am resigned to the government teaching children what passes for morality today because many parents have abdicated that responsibility. I am not well-to-do, and had to fight constantly to correct what the government schools erroneously taught, but my children were worth it. But I wouldn’t even think of sending my children to guvmint schools today, especially in the dankwater outhouse town we live in. I taught my children there is right and wrong, good and evil, and teach my grandchildren the same (with their parents’ blessing).

   I guess it’s wrong to assume libs don’t believe in evil - I know they believe GW & Cheney are. I just can’t figure out why they don’t believe bin Laden is, or the myriad of martyrs who kill women and children are, or that some things really are worth fighting (and dying) for, including a morality that teaches something other than hedonism.

   Comment by Carlos — September 2, 2006 @ 11:29 am

6. It’s time to take our country back for ourselves as well as the future of our children. Go to:www.InGodWeBetrayed.com to see what you can do.

   Comment by John Cheeseman — December 28, 2006 @ 3:58 pm